socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. We caught on with the right product, at the right time. company.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The event is an excellent educational and networking opportunity that will help industry newcomers and veterans understand the latest changes in the industry according to the executive decision makers in well known and established companies. 3:45pm Intersection of Technology and Content Production and Distribution Panel. 1:30pm Lunch.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild.

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Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Recently, San Diego-based Rippol (www.rippol.com) launched its web site, a service which uses social networking to help people find and discover interesting videos related to their interests. So is this more social networking, or is this search? We caught up with CEO Aaron Crayford to learn about the company.

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UCSD Social Network Content Sites 145

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Here is my case: 1.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are. Dots is all about people.

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Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capital Hulu 330

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Coming off a very successful exit with Networks in Motion at the end of 2009, 2010 has been a very exciting year for several of my companies, Socialvibe, 2tor, Leadpoint, Webvisible and Impact Radius. Pay close attention to Hulu and the emergence of internet connected TV's; this will shape how content is consumed and paid for.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Hulu/Hulu Plus. Hulu offers current shows ASAP. Pay to Watch: If you didn’t already know, paying a few bucks more a month will get you Hulu Plus without (hardly any) commercials. Hidden Content: Hulu has some content that can only be viewed with a qualifying cable subscription.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. I also worked with content partnership with Flip Networks. What is CreatorUp all about?

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

I personally come from DreamWorks, and was President of Production previous to taking the opportunity to come run M-GO. Why a new, streaming service -- and how is this different from Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, etc? We''re next day TV with the networks. What''s the story behind M-GO? Stay tuned there. READ MORE>>.

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Entertainment Netflix Marketing Content 197

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 94

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

The reason why, is we're more than a consulting firm, in that we also provide access to capital, and access to production, resources, and talent. We have a very significant, deep network, and relationships from the best of the best, across multiple disciplines. We are an innovation, investment, and advisory firm.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2014

Amplify was instrumental, because having a network down here in Los Angeles within the technology community, in addition to the media industry, was really the biggest value add in our early days. It''s always more productive to have people together in person, because of person-to-person interaction. Both of those were instrumental.

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Platform Startup Content Sites 164

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

Thus the subscription model (low fixed monthly payments), is rapidly becoming the norm for new products and services. By providing access to a large variety of titles, like NetFlix with streaming movies, or Hulu for TV shows, with new content added regularly, there is always a reason to keep up your subscription. Network model.

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Startup Customer Custom Netflix 56

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Of course you can have a few competitors and still find enough charges but once you’ve gotten 2–3 big players in any city it’s hard to imagine many more players building out as efficient of a charger network as the early innovator. You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.”

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

I kind of thought there was a similar opportunity you see in the video space with YouTube, Hulu, thePlatform all going after. Rahul Sonnad: I had just moved to Southern California, so I didn't have the largest local network here. Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content.

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

At G4, Scot served as VP of Program Editorial and Internet, and developed, Produced, and Hosted G4TV.COM, the network’s interactive talk show. Before G4, Scot founded All Games Network (AGN). Scot has 15+ years experience developing product integration and interactive campaigns for major sports, entertainment and consumer brands.

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Technical Review Technology Activision Entertainment 76

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 25, 2011

Tony spoke about business missteps, scaling up online marketing programs, and poignant questions to address when changing a product or effectively marketing it. Matthew Arevalo is Founder and CEO of Master Works, which combines social media, business consulting, technology consulting, and production management to build brands.

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Social Media Mobile SEO Media 71

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2012

TVSync’s parent company Voible , has provided fingerprint protection technology to most major movie studios and TV networks since 2005. There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. What does that mean? Even more choices.

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Screening Content Mobile Netflix 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). He started off the session of breaking news of the most important product announcement of his life to date – the pregnancy of his wife with his baby daughter.

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Twiistup SoCal Southern California Yammer 228

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where There's lots of examples--iTunes, which is now a dominant player, opportunities like Hulu, which didn't exist until recently. where he is Chairman.

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Southern California Media Venture Capital Invest 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2008

He's an entrepreneur and operating executive, and has made investments in companies like Univision--the largest television network in the U.S.--where There's lots of examples--iTunes, which is now a dominant player, opportunities like Hulu, which didn't exist until recently. where he is Chairman.

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Capital Southern California Media Venture Capital 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising is also what allows you to watch Hulu for free, use Yahoo! People mistook the fact that these text advertisements worked in Google to say they would work in social networks. So PPC (pay-per-click) advertising on social networks has performed poorly to date. All of them are really sharp on product and market.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. And as we know the book industry is moving fully electronic with the advent of the Kindle making the costs of production & distribution nearly zero. Netflix, Hulu & HBO Go are coming from the opposite direction – the Head End.

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Media Netflix Content Hulu 302

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

While everyone developed their products throughout the day, SWLA teams briefly said hi to Marc Nager (StartupWeekend CEO) during a quick Skype call who was down in New Zealand facilitating Startup Weekend. We here honored to have an awesome group of judges put forth some great questions to our presenters. What a SWLA.

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Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks.

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” Article 1 discussed the digital revolution and how companies like Netflix and Hulu were taking over. So after a series of phone calls and discussions they started to really nail down the steps and whittled the product into the most basic actions. Maybe you work for a network or TV production. Click it, buy it.

Entertainment 98

Entertainment Advertising Startup Media 98

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2016

Multi-Channel-Network. This is dumb because you really are nothing more than a temporary ad network if you do this and usually one who delivers almost no value. When we were acquired by Disney we had a product & engineering team of 55 people. What does that even mean? Who came up with this term and why? And Vidme.

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Content Snapchat Platform SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. It had the audience, the people, the network, everything! Tige and I discuss an excellent blog post written by the CEO of Hulu (Jason Kilar) on the future of advertising. I run Revolution’s VC investments.

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Venture Capital Examples Startup Invest 277

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). Be extra productive. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A.

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Los Angeles Company Companies Angel 50

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. You’ll likely see applications that draw you into interactive experiences, connect you to your social networks, help you browse your TV better and create a richer media experience overall. By a long shot.

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